Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-27
WHEELING'S WATER.
JOINT MEETING OF THE WATER BOARD
AND THE CONMITTEEON WATER WORKS
Had Last Eysning-Wm Ask Council for
$4,000 Additional Appropriation 10
Finish Out the YsarS

A Joint meeting Of the City Water
Board and the Council committee on
water works, was held last evening in the
office of the Water Board, to discuss the
matter of asking Council for an additional
appropriation with which to Iun the water
works until the end OF the year, rs the
regular appropriation for that purpose
which was $50, 600 is found to be INSULT
Gent. As the receipts OF the Water Board
were over $27, 600 in excess Of the expen-
ditures, last year, the appropriation was cut
down about 81, 600. When the estimate was
made up at the beginning of the year, the
hoard did not take into consideration the
mains that have been laid on the
Island, as it was not then
known that these mains were to be put
10. This and other improvements
not contemplated 1t the time will make
the expenditures exceed the appropriation
of S35, 900 for the purpose of water works
and improvements. The whole amount
appropriated by Council was $500 but
SIS. $50 of this sun was used in llquldat-
ing city indebtedness.
The meeting was called to order last
evening by selecting MIR. J. A. Farls as
Chairman. Clerk Wilkinson read a report
of the money expended this year by the
Board up to the present date, as fol-
lows: New heater, $535.S9; salaries,
office 10 date, 81, l09. O3; salaries at works,
81. 3O4. "a; miscellaneous expenses, Sl,lI3;
repsirs of mains, $685. A; extension OF
mains, so, 241.77; repairs to pumping ap-
paratus, 81, 523 A; fire plugs, S539.31; oil,
S77. 20; coal, 1926. 80; services, 1920; reser-
voir. $3.50 81; buildings, S377.0l; boilers,
SI4 O5; refunded, 81 40; compromise loan
Of 1860, S., 900; loan of 1885, SO, $50; loan
OF 1877, $780, total, 43,36l.sO; appro,
priatiOn, $50, $50; amount unexpended
September 20, 1887, $2,3lS.2O.
The following report was prepared Tor
presentation to Council: I'VE find that the
amount of money appropriated by your
honorable body for the use of the Water
Works, etc, will be insufficient to run the
works until the end Of the year and com
ulete the necessary repairs and extensions
of street mains now under way. We have
laid SO far 600 feet of finch pipe on Yer
mont street; 600 feet 4-inch on Florida
street; 300 feet 4-inch OF Wetzel street;
1856 feet finch in Alley II; $50 feet 4-iDch
on Wabash street; 720 feet finch or Wood
aud Thirty. first street; 600 feet S-inch on
McCollcch and Seventeenth streets; 3,46U
feet 2O-inch from Twentieth to Thirty
sixth street, a total Of !, 7O5 feet.
I'VE have also in contemplation 1000
feet of S-inch pipe on Eighteenth street and
300 feet ON Seventeenth street to finish the
connection with Manchester. Our apprO-
p~riation is now almost expended, and We
desire you to appropriate the further sum
of fifteen thousand TO be taken from the
Water Board"
On motion il was resolved to ask Coun-
ell for the Sl5, 900 additional, then o dis
eussion of the matter followed, in which
many points concerning Wheeling's water
supply were taken up and talked OF. In
this connection the source from which the
Sl5, 900 is to come was also discussed.
Mr.. HASTINGS stated that the S&T,O DOC
surplus of last year still remained in bank
TO their credit, and that the needed money
might be deducted from that.
Mr.. Harrel said it was the intention TO
use that S2T, 900 to build a high service
reservoir and it should be used fornO other
purpose than that, AS 4 great many people
IN the north end OF the city were deprived
of water much of the time and
they ought TO have the reser'
yoir by all means Mr.. Hoffman said
that in the lower end of the city the water
had no force ut all and when a fire plug
is opened the watOr merely runs out. lie
said that the Board had gotten Mr.. Smith
the counry civil engineer to make estl-
mates on what the cost OF the high pres
sure reservoir would he and the amount
scared them out completely rs it was about
Ss5, 900. 10 run a reservoir up seVenty-hye
higher than the present one. MIR, Del
brugge said that in the neighbOrhood up
around the seminary the water was very
bad and he wanted to know before he y0t-
ed on the appropriation If the people OF
that vicinity were to have some relief. Mr..
Hastings said the Board had not been made
aware of the matter and he assured Mr.
| Delbrugge that it would be attended to, as
were all such complaints that were laid be
fore the Board.
Mr.. Hoffman thought that the high pres
sure could be secured at o cost of about
$40, 900 by a device which be had seen in
many cities he had visited. The discussion
continued some time and it ended by a
resolution authorizing the City Solicitor to
draw mp an ordinance to be presented to
Council appropriating SIS, 900 to the use OF
the city Water Board ont of their surplus
fund. The meeting then adjourned.